PANORAMA, B.C. — Marie Bochet of France won her eighth straight world title on Saturday at the IPC world championships after claiming her third gold is as many races with a win in the super combined.
Bochet, 21, was defending her five world titles that she won in 2013. She was three seconds faster than her competition in the morning super-G. In the afternoon’s slalom run, Bochet recorded a time of 2:03.17 to place ahead of Germany’s Andrea Rothfuss and Anna Jochemsen of the Netherlands.
Toronto’s Erin Latimer was Canada’s top finisher with a seventh-place finish. Calgary’s Alana Ramsay was close behind in eighth.
Russia’s Alexey Bugaev won gold in the men’s standing super-G with a time of 1:54.56.
Austria’s Markus Salcher had the lead after the morning’s super-G but, after Bugaev’s run, settled for silver. His teammate Matthias Lanzinger recovered from nearly crashing out in the slalom to hold on for bronze.
Kirk Schornstein of Spruce Groves, Alta., finished in ninth while Calgary’s Kurt Oatway secured 11th in the men’s sitting super combined.
Australia’s Melissa Perrine with guide Andrew Bor claimed their third world title of the event by beating Russia’s Aleksandra Frantceva and guide Semen Pliaskin. Frantceva and Pliaskin are the defending Paralympic silver medallists. Danelle Umstead of the United States, guided by her husband Rob, took bronze, just like they did at Sochi 2014.
Austria’s Claudia Loesch edged rival Anna Schaffelhuber of Germany to take gold in both the super-G and slalom races. Laurie Stephens of the U.S. took third.
Germany’s Georg Kreiter won the men’s super-G for his first major international title. Austria’s Roman Rabl settled for silver with France’s Frederic Francois taking bronze.
Miroslav Haraus and guide Maros Hudik won their first-ever world title in the men’s visually impaired after a sensational slalom run. Russia’s Ivan Frantsev and guide German Agranovkii, (2:01.35) picked up silver. Spain’s Jon Santacana and his guide Miguel Galindo (2:03.32), two-time world champions in the event, claimed bronze.
Mac Marcoux of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and his guide BJ Marcoux didn’t participate on Saturday due to a small tear in his left meniscus that happened during training last week. He has since decided to withdraw from the rest of the competition. He claimed gold in Wednesday’s downhill and silver in Tuesday’s Super-G.